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Prague Chess Festival: Prague: Round robin 25 Feb – 7 Mar 10 (6) GCT Romania Bucharest: Round robin 5 – 17 May 10 TePe Sigeman & Co tournament: Malmö: Round robin 20 – 26 May 8 Norway Chess: Stavanger: Double round robin 26 May – 6 Jun 6 (6) Biel Chess Festival: Biel/Bienne: Multi-stage 12 – 25 Jul 6 Sinquefield Cup: St. Louis: Round ...
The 2025 FIDE Circuit is a system comprising the top chess tournaments in 2025, which serves as a qualification path for the Candidates Tournament 2026. Players receive points based on their performance and the strength of the tournament. A player's final Circuit score is the sum of their seven best results of the year.
The 1963 Open at Chicago had 266 entries, making it the largest chess tournament held in the United States to that time. The tourney was slightly smaller at Boston in 1964, with a field of 229. The 1983 Open at Pasadena was the largest ever, at 836 official entries; it also featured the participation of Viktor Korchnoi , who had played in the ...
The event is often a Zonal tournament for the United States Chess Federation, providing qualifier spots to the Chess World Cup. [3] As of 2023, twelve players are invited to compete: the reigning US champion, as well as the respective winners of the US Open Chess Championship and the US Junior Championship.
Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born July 30, 1992) is an Italian and American chess grandmaster who is the reigning four-time United States Chess Champion. With a peak rating of 2844, Caruana is the third-highest-rated player in history .
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2025 was the 87th edition of the annual chess tournament held in Wijk aan Zee. It was held from 17 January to 2 February 2025. The field of 14 players in the Masters section included the defending champion Wei Yi, as well as 2024 Challengers winner Leon Luke Mendonca.
Andrew Tang won the 2023 US Open. He and GM Alexey Sorokin both won their ninth round games to tie for first place, but Tang won the Armageddon playoff. [16] Tang was subsequently featured on the cover of the December 2023 issue of Chess Life. In 2024, Tang was inducted into the Minnesota Chess Hall of Fame, by the Minnesota State Chess ...
So's first appearance for the United States yielded individual gold medal for board 3 as well as team gold at the Chess Olympiad held in Baku. In January 2017, So won the Tata Steel Masters , finishing ahead of World Champion Magnus Carlsen by a full point, with a score of 9/13, [ 51 ] to rise to World No. 3 in the next FIDE list.